Example sentences of "would become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent … |
| 2 | In the 1950s , it seemed as if there might be a place for literature in the academy , so that the writing of fiction or poetry , of criticism , and the teaching of literature would become a unified form of life . |
| 3 | While new departments are born and others extended , one of the oldest — the Home Office — would become a shadow of its present self . |
| 4 | Under a giant makeshift marquee , Tadashi Kume , the president of Honda , promised that the Japanese company would become a ‘ good citizen of Europe ’ buying 80 per cent of components for its Swindon-built cars from European suppliers . |
| 5 | Fearing that the crackdown after the Tiananmen Square assault may be softening , city authorities warned this week that ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ remnants would become a ‘ time bomb ’ unless ‘ ferreted out ’ with more vigour . |
| 6 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
| 7 | But we had no idea it would become a chain of shops . |
| 8 | Maureen Moore was nineteen , and when she had finished her qualifications she would become a music teacher . |
| 9 | They would certainly have been completely astonished to learn , as would the author , that The Problem of Pain would become a great commercial success . |
| 10 | Diana , for her part , thought she would become a wife and mother ; but , with all the servants and secretaries who surrounded the Prince , including a valet who selected and prepared his clothes for the day , packed for him and even did his personal shopping , she felt superfluous , and just a little jealous . |
| 11 | Playing the offside game would become a riskier business , especially against forwards with the pace of Lineker or Rush , who would be given the benefit of the doubt which at present goes to defenders . |
| 12 | When I did n't have any way out , I felt like songs were a tunnel and if there was any mess I could just funnel it out and it would become a beautiful picture at the end of the tunnel . |
| 13 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 14 | If he did nothing more he would still retain his fee simple , but he would have deprived himself of the right to present possession and enjoyment of the land ; his estate would become a future estate , which would again become a present estate , an ‘ estate in possession ’ , only when the smaller estate , the ‘ particular estate ’ which had been carved out of it , came to an end . |
| 15 | Acceptance of pain was the bridge that enabled a girl to relinquish her hope that her clitoris would become a penis , and to become instead a mature woman whose sexuality was focused upon her vagina . |
| 16 | In the euphoria which had followed the victory over France , there was even some talk that when the war was over the Party would be dissolved by the Wehrmacht and Germany would become a ‘ pure military state ’ . |
| 17 | Anxious , more likely , that she would become a nuisance again , would let Mr Landor down or cause trouble over Ferdinando being taken away . |
| 18 | No child would become a secure and balanced adult with a known murderer for father . |
| 19 | America was hailed as the ‘ great English Republic ’ and orators hoped that England would become a country in which ‘ all denominations will be as free from State patronage or persecution as they are in the great land over which waves ‘ the star-spangled banner ’ ’ . |
| 20 | Louis XIV offered to revive the office of Constable of France for him if he would become a Catholic but he declined the offer ( 1661 ) . |
| 21 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ The recent flirtation of nods and winks between the Labour and Liberal campaigns would become a way of life , ’ he added . |
| 23 | As for the Tutorial Classes Committee , Jacques would become a joint Secretary of the RAC , a particularly difficult sticking point for officers of the Cambridge Board . |
| 24 | WHEN Robert Napier bought four acres of Carntyne and added it to his Parkhead Forge , it was to create something that would become a cross between Hell and Armageddon for the thousands who worked there . |
| 25 | No sooner than formally constituted , the Standard reported the links would become a great boom to the town , although before January 1907 was out , a Leader article read as follows , ( doubtless written by either Charles Luker or a member of the Club Committee ) — ‘ It is to be hoped that a commencement of the projected new golf links at Henley will not be long delayed . |
| 26 | In the early days of shanty-town development , there were suggestions that the squatters would become a strong political force with the potential for threatening the status quo . |
| 27 | Paris would become a European capital to which all would look with envy and a desire to emulate its splendours . |
| 28 | Originally , he thought he would become a poet and it was ‘ by accident ’ that he became a doctor . |
| 29 | Amis joined the popular front of rising protest and who , in those days of rebellious literary figures , could have imagined that he would become a knight ? |
| 30 | They came to Corman 's office to establish what would become a lifelong , though intermittent , friendship between them and Nicholson . |